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The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (usually referred to as the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, abbreviated MUTCD) is a document issued by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) to specify the standards by which traffic signs, road surface markings, and signals are designed, installed ...
Recognizing the differences in standards across Europe and the Americas, the Vienna convention considers these types of signs an acceptable alternative to the triangular warning sign. [2] However, UN compliant signs must make use of more pictograms in contrast to more text based US variants.
[8] In the city of Bangkok, another typeface is used, supplied by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. [9] It notably makes use of open "heads" for letters. The rest of the world usually employs Transport, Highway Gothic or Arial for the Latin text, and a sans-serif font for the non-Latin text which may or may not have a specific name.
Bus lane: Bus stop: and: or: Train station [w] Airport or [w] Electric vehicle charging station Not used or [v] Freeway begins or or: or: Freeway ends or or: or: Customs post [x] [y] [w] Not used National highway shield(s) National border signs or speed limits Not used Not used Not used Not used Not used Not used - Not used varies
The original design (1983–1989) of Irish motorway signs were a simpler version of the UK design. [8] These signs were only ever in use on the M7 Naas Bypass and M1 Airport Motorway. From 1989 to 2005, signs on motorways were nearly identical to that on UK motorways, [ note 1 ] although in Ireland, motorway junctions were not always numbered ...
In the United Kingdom, a clearway is a road or section of road on which it is illegal to stop on the main carriageway for any reason except in an emergency. [3]Certain sections of urban road may be designated Urban Clearway, which is a little-used designation, but one which prevents vehicles being stopped during the peak hours, typically 07:00–09:30 and 15:00–18:00.
A bus turnout, bus pullout, bus bay, bus lay-by (UK), [1] or off-line bus stop is a designated spot on the side of a road where buses or trams may pull out of the flow of traffic to pick up and drop off passengers. It is often indented into the sidewalk or other pedestrian area. [2] A bus bay is, in a way, the opposite of a bus bulb. With a bus ...